Professor of Religious Studies and Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University
Joined December 2009
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“This is sort of science by press release,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, calling the memo “irresponsible” and “dangerous.”’
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Thoughts on whether digital computers will ever be capable of what our analog brains are.
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Ambiguous but encouraging Doctor Who news
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All sanctions against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary lifted
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🇺🇸 On the 250th anniversary of the U.S., our surveys over the past year find most people are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. and think the country’s best days are behind us.
What do you think? 🤔
ALT Chart showing most Americans think the country’s best days are behind us.
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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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Any time I am tempted to take the SBC seriously, I remember two years ago when these two breakout sessions happened back-to-back...
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James F. McGrath retweeted
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The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice
And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense
Such a tiresome waste of time
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Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
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James F. McGrath retweeted
Jun 11
The SBC just banned women from pulpits.
Same convention. Same week. They elected a president who called their sexual abuse crisis a "hoax."
Not just ironic, it’s abuse.
The research is clear. The history is documented.
Women: it's time to run.
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Book Review: STAR WARS, STAR TREK, AND THE 21st-CENTURY CHRISTIANS (1978) latestartrek.substack.com/p/…
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Only an idolater and a heretic would imagine that people are sent to hell because of their view of or interpretation of the Bible...
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Judge extends block on Trump's $1.8 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'
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Glad that UFO files are being released, but definitely don't let these distract you from the things that this administration hopes they will distract you from...
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Do people like Mike Braun know they are evil and are just out to see what they can get away with, or are they ignorant of how despicable their views are but more concerned about remaining popular and willing to say or deny anything?
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As a bookseller laments declining sales, the article mentions among the rarities available in his shop a copy of the Mandaean Great Treasure (Ginza Rabba).
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James F. McGrath retweeted
Jun 11
Since 2000, over 380 Southern Baptist leaders have been convicted of sex crimes involving more than 700 victims all while SBC leaders covered for abusers and silenced survivors.
But women preaching and pastoring is the real problem? What a joke.
Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. cnn.it/3S3Ar4O
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This won't be the first time that the Southern Baptist Convention adopted positions that future generations will be ashamed of.
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The big question for me is whether they will ever alter the underlying approach to their faith that keeps leading them to adopt stances they eventually realize were wrong...
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